| Cuba is an island that has many places to explore | | | | did not go up to October of that year, when the |
| during your holidays and thousands of marvels to see | | | | opening of the paths for the communication between |
| and to discover. One of this wonders is the | | | | Havana and Matanzas was officially settled. |
| Bacunayagua Bridge, built in the borders of Havana | | | | This impressive step that is 18 kilometers away to |
| Province and Matanzas. | | | | the west of the city of Matanzas and it establishes |
| Matanzas had the opportunity to inaugurate in the | | | | the territorial limit with the county of Havana. To the |
| first year of the Revolution the longest and highest | | | | north of the bridge, the immense sea is sighted; the |
| bridge in Cuba until that moment. Its construction is | | | | channel and the outlet of what should be the bed of |
| historically a crisscross with the Via Blanca (the | | | | a mighty river in a remote time, and to the south, |
| highway that connects Havana City and Varadero), | | | | the extensive and exuberant Valley of YumurÃ. |
| begun by Carlos PrÃo Socarrás´ | | | | The importance of that crossing for the Via Blanca |
| government, with the purpose of shortening the | | | | resides in that is the nearest and direct connection, |
| distance between Matanzas and Havana. A total of | | | | for the beautiful landscape of the Cuban north coast, |
| 41 columns sustains the bridge of Bacunayagua, | | | | between the Tunnel of the capital of the country |
| those that were in its moment the most slender in | | | | and the City Spa of Varadero. |
| the world made of concrete. | | | | The beauty of the environment of Bacunayagua, |
| In 1957 the works of construction of the bridge | | | | favored by the execution of that advanced project, |
| began, classified during that time as a colossal work, | | | | alternates with multitude of headlands, hillsides and |
| not only for its extension but for the height on an | | | | mangroves, natural refuge of great ornithological |
| immense cliff. Its columns possess a pile of 22.50 | | | | importance where 74 species of birds cohabit with 16 |
| meters each one, with a width of a meter for 1.60 | | | | of reptiles and eight of amphibians. In the ecosystem |
| meters, and some reach the 42 meters high. | | | | of swamp of this area vegetable formations appear |
| On its bolsters there are 6 beams that weigh each | | | | as the heath coastal xeroformo and the forest |
| one 47 tons, and that they were fused in the same | | | | semideciduo, besides a rich and varied fauna with high |
| place the bridge was being built. In total the bridge | | | | percent of endemism. |
| has a height 103 meters, with a longitude 314 meters | | | | The magnitude and splendid image of the place can |
| and a width of 17. On September26, 1959, Fidel | | | | be appreciated perfectly from the Mirador, located in |
| Castro Ruz and Celia Sanchez inspected the works, | | | | an elevation to the end west of the wonderful work. |
| the crossing for the splendid bridge constituted the | | | | This is a unique invitation you must take during your |
| moment in that the road was inaugurated; although it | | | | holidays in the island. |